Thank you for having me, Christine! We've been blog friends forever. And we live geographically close
enough to visit someday… gotta make that happen!
But there's this thing called time. No one seems to have enough of it. I noticed several writers agreed
with that statement in this month's IWSG.
I,
the Lazy
Housewife (ie – Queen of Efficiency), identify and eradicate time wasters. Things like driving,
dusting, and showering. Sure driving gets you there, dusting makes your house appear clean, and
showering makes you not smell bad. But those futile, mindless chores must be done over and over
again, wasting the precious minutes I wish I could be doing other things, like writing! So, here are my
wishful thinking future household gadgets:
- Cars that drive themselves – we're already almost there. But I wonder, would you trust
a highway full of computer driven cars? And if we let cars drive for us, why don't we just all use mass
transit? It just seems silly, doesn't it? (teleportation, baby!)
- A robot maid/self-cleaning house – especially for the bathroom. I have three, well, four,
boys. Eww!
- Speed-shower – be blasted with a cleanser, rinse, and be done! Like a car wash or
decontamination stall.
- Remember Andromeda Strain? I liked the biodegradable, disposable clothes – no laundry!
Can I have an incinerator installed, please? Poof goes the garbage!
In
Pop Travel, they use a lot of cool spy gadgets, and even more in
Simulation, the next
Reluctant Detective novel (I'm still looking for a good name for Cooper's series…). The gadgets I can
see popping into stores the soonest are the QV and CC. They both combine web surfing, smartphone
technology, and more, into a holographic, 3D imager. QV stands for quarknet viewer that goes on your
wrist, and CC is a compucenter that also includes TV/satellite.
And developers are working on new innovations all the time. In my research, I found this article
at the Business Insider:
In the future, says Winkless, a range of energy-grubbing technologies
will increasingly appear in the home: “Energy harvesting pots could mean that boiling your pasta
charges your mobile phone. The vibrations of your washing machine could power wireless sensors
– or your TV remote could be powered just by you pressing the buttons." (
Source)
What household gadgets would you like to see in the future?
This Lazy Housewife glimpse of the future brought to you by Pop Travel.
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Cooper thought he could get through
life without having to pop... |
Pop Travel by Tara Tyler
A tale of deception and teleportation.
When a distraught client enters J.L. Cooper's small town detective agency ranting about a pop travel
teleportation cover up, Cooper takes the case. He blames pop travel indirectly for his wife's death and
would love to expose a glitch in it.
But the glitch turns out to be disintegrating travelers. And now, his client is dead, his secretary is
missing, and a hitman is stalking him. Plus there's all the webcams watching his every move. So, Cooper
has to find a way to expose the deadly flaw, while using pop travel to escape the maniacs covering it up,
not to mention save a couple of tag-alongs he's not sure he can trust. No problem.
